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<br />.LL..! <br /> <br />Mr. Smith stated that these excerpts will confirm remarks <br />made by MI. Cory that there is a lack of information of the water <br />supply and potentialities on the Western Slope and added that no <br />funds should be spent until the facts are knmvn. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Mr. Delaney stated that all oreanizations on the Western <br />Slope are anxious to expedite, in every way possible, the completion <br />of these surveys. In his opinion, he said, if surveys and inve~tiga- <br />tions of the same characher as the Bureau's report on the Gunnison <br />River are made, it should be possible to go ahead vlith a fair degree <br />of assurance that nothing is being overlooked. The matter of securing <br />funds fs very important, he added, and Frank I.rerriell, Engineer and <br />Secretary of the Colorado River Nater Consrrvation District will <br />discuss this matter. <br /> <br />Mr. Merriell stated that Judge Stone customarily went to <br />Washington and appeared before appropriation subcommittees of the <br />House to make sure the reclamation appropriation carried sufficient <br />funds. He called attention to the fact that, if we want to be assured <br />of sufficient funds for the investigations on the ~estern Slope, <br />someone .vill have to take over the responsibility of going to Nashington <br />every year for this purpose. <br /> <br />Mr. Merriell reviewed breifly vnlat it means to divert water. <br />Denver, he stated, has diverted water from t he Fraser River and some <br />of its tributaries for sixteen years, andfrom the Williams River and <br />some tributaries for twelve years. Mr. Merriell explained that when <br />Denver secured the right to divert water from t hose rivers, the <br />Western Slope wrote off those rivers as a source of supply as it was <br />assumed Denver wanted that water and was going to divert it. He <br />pointed out that Denver was not, and is not today, equipped to <br />divert and use that water, and as a result, Denver has used less than <br />1/3 of the water available. If this water was so vall1able as <br />Denver now claims, he stated, necessary preparations should have been <br />made to store the'water where it is collected and at a place near where <br />it is going to be used. He stated that enough water to SGrve 100,000 <br />people has been going to waste all these years. <br /> <br />Mr. Delaney called attention to a letter from the Water <br />Board of Pice, dated November 9, 1949, regarding the minutes of five <br />meetings which were held on the Colorado River" Storage Project at <br />Craig, Grand Junction, Durango, ~leblo and Denver. He stated that <br />he had located these minutes and found there was no record of Denver's <br />proposal. He expressed the thought that Denver has been lax in <br />presenting this proposal. Mr. Delaney thanked the 30ard for their <br />attention in this matter and stated that the presentation of the <br />Western Slope was concluded. <br /> <br />I <br />